2023 Exhibits

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  Joey Quiñones: Americanoiseries

  October 30 - December 8, 2023
  In this series, artist Joey Quiñones uses objects associated with the home to highlight the global nature of the slave trade, and the complex social relations produced throughout the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

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  Mark Rospenda: Filter Feeder

  August 28 - December 8, 2023
  While many varieties exist, some filter feeders are immobile ocean organisms that filter particles of food from the currents that move through and around them (the artist's favorites are sea fans). Instead of having the agency to actively seek sources of food, they must wait for it to be brought to them. Human experience of images is similar to how these organisms obtain sustenance. We do not ask to be immersed in images, and yet they are constantly washing through and over us. And those images, in turn, become a part of what we understand and believe. However, it seems that with increasing frequency we see things that exist outside of the structural framework we have constructed to understand our experiences. Whether publicly shared or in private, these are the moments that make us tell others that what we saw "felt like a movie." Disassociated from what feels real, these outliers make us reevaluate our understanding of a sane and rational world—coming through like a hurricane, tearing down the structures of understanding that we've built to make sense of the senseless. This exhibition of drawings and paper sculptures is a self portrait of the artist as a poetic representation of knowledge and belief—and questions how those rickety structures will hold up to moments that threaten to shake us to the core.

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  We Love Having You Here: Expressions of Identity in DePauw’s Art Collection

  August 28 - December 8, 2023
  Curated by current Arthur E. Klauser Fellows Ian Brundige and Alyssa Flory, We Love Having You Here: Expressions of Identity in DePauw’s Art Collection uses objects within DePauw’s various collections to explore expressions of gender and sexuality as they relate to personal and communal identities. Through this exhibition, identity will be examined as a constant process of discovering, defining, revealing, and defying parts of ourselves.

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  Infinite Splendor, Infinite Light: The Bruce Walker '53 Collection of Tibetan Religious Art

  June 1 - June 30, 2023
  Bruce Walker graduated from DePauw in 1953. After two years in the Marine Corps, he became a case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (1956-1973), working on the Agency's Tibetan resistance project 1960-1968. While stationed in India and Sikkim during the period 1962-1968, he assembled an impressive collection of Tibetan thangkas, works on paper, and religious objects which he donated to DePauw in 2002. The exhibition is also accompanied by a full color catalog with contributions from DePauw University students, faculty, and staff.

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  Senior Thesis Exhibition

  April 21 - May 20, 2023
  Come view the tremendous accomplishments of DePauw University’s art students in the Senior Art Exhibition. Each student will present a brief statement about what inspired their creative explorations during the opening event. Stay for refreshments and the opportunity to talk to the artists individually.

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  Modeling the Moche Worlds. The Ritual, Natural, and Supernatural Vessels at DePauw’s Art Collection

  March 22 - June 30, 2023
  Professor Vargas Marquez will be working with art history students of DePauw University to curate an exhibition that features ancient American objects from DePauw's permanent collection. Connecting history with museum practices, students will explore topics related to ethics, curating, collecting, and power through display. Participating Students: Solomon Alhakeem, Richard Beardsley, Trotter Benson, Ella Burrice, Marcus Childs, Abby Fathauer, Cora Gilbert, Josh Krusenklaus, Madison Montero, Anthony Parille, Jack Riggle, Jay'la Teasley, Blake Woodard, Jingze Zhou.

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  Arboreta, A Sabbatical Exhibitionby John Berry

  March 6 - April 7, 2023
  

  The paintings in Arboreta draw inspiration from the history, structures, and resilience of the Schrebergarten in Leipzig Germany, exploring the implications for how we organize our images, ourselves, and our communities. Hovering between landscape and abstraction, flat shapes compartmentalize space into different surfaces, barricades, and hiding spots. The artifice and ambiguities of spatial illusion are out in the open, weaving a seemingly wider range of frequencies into a smaller, simpler encounter.

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  Juried Student Exhibition: Juried by Mark Rospenda

  February 1 - February 26, 2023
  Juror Mark Rospenda brings depth to the curatorial role of the Juried Student Exhibition as he is both an artist and a curator. Rospenda lives and works in South Bend, IN, where he is Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the South Bend Museum of Art. He has organized and overseen more than 75 exhibitions during his time at the museum. Rospenda’s own work has been exhibited at the Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC; DEMO Project, Springfield, IL; Herron Galleries, Indianapolis, IN; and other locations nationally. As the winner of the Director’s Choice Award in the 2016 Art From the Heartland exhibition, he was granted a solo exhibition at the Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN, in early 2019. Rospenda will share his observations of the work juried into this exciting annual exhibition of student work during his curatorial talk.